In the past week, 525 new jobs have been announced in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Qual Tex Labs, a San Antonio-based medical company that screens blood and plasma is investing $12 million over the next five years and is planning to hire around 125 new employees. Web Industries announced adding as many as 250 new workers, and Spectral [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 16, 2010
LG Hausys America Inc., a surface countertop manufacturer, expects to create 80 new jobs through the expansion of its operations in Adairsville, Ga. The company plans to invest about $50 million and add 95,000 square feet next to its existing facility in Gordon County. Stone countertops will be made at the plant. Gov. Sonny Perdue said hiring [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 11, 2010
The state of Georgia has created a new initiative to encourage small businesses there to create more jobs. The “Hire Work Ready” program will provide funds to small businesses that hire “Work Ready” certified employees. The state is aiming to create at least 2,000 new small business jobs through the initiative. Companies that employ 50 or [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 18, 2010
According to a report released Friday by Georgia’s Department of Labor, 100,000 laid off workers in the state filed initial claims for unemployment benefits in December. This was an increase of almost 40% over November’s initial claims. Initial claims came most heavily from the manufacturing, trade, construction and administrative and support service sectors. The labor department [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 30, 2009
NCRopened the second of three new facilities in Georgia this week, a service center in Peachtree. A manufacturing plant in Columbus is already operating and the company is relocating its headquarters to Duluth by the end of 2010. The new service center will employ 900 people, and some 200 of those jobs are currently listedon [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
Automaker Kia’s new plant in West Point, Georgia, lies right along the border with Alabama. Alabama expects the plant to create 9-10,000 jobs, mostly in existing companies that provide supplies for automakers. Hundreds of Alabama residents will also work directly for the plant. The new plant, which is Kia’s first plant in the United [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 22, 2009
NCR, which recently relocated its headquarters from Ohio to Georgia, is cutting 2200 jobs from its global operations in a cost cutting measure. No word yet from the company on where the jobs cuts will land. 3rd quarter profits for the company dropped 81%. Revenue also fell by 11.6 percent, driven down in part [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 14, 2009
Shaw Industries, a full service flooring manufacturer, is reopening a facility in Georgia to process filament yarn used in the company’s residential carpet manufacturing. The factory, expected to be operational mid 2010, will bring in 200 jobs to Calhoun, Georgia. Shaw was founded in 1946 as Star Dye Company and in 2001 was purchased by [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 18, 2009
First Data, which recently announced it will relocate its headquarters back to Atlanta, bringing 250 jobs to the city, will in fact create 1,000 new positions. The initial figure was intentionally conservative. The company used the 250 number because that’s the minimum number of jobs needed to qualify for state incentives. First Data currently employs 750 in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 14, 2009
First Data will relocate its headquarters back to Atlanta, bringing 250 jobs to the city over three years. The firm has been officially based in Greenwood Village, Colorado — but most operations have been in Atlanta, where the company employs 750. Founded in 1969, First Data Corporation is a payment processing company and a provider of electronic [...]
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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